A group of six students and teachers
from the Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
(Czech Republic) including my daughter Hana participated on the Shadow-tracking
Expedition project. Observers of this project were positioned along the
totality belt from Niger to Turkey. This group was on the end of our
observing chain. The group was a part of the
expedition organized by Ladislav Hric
under patronage of the Slovak Astronomical Society.
They observed the eclipse on
a 1,330m high peak
above Göreme in Cappadocia in central Turkey, which offered
fascinating views
of the landscape around and under them. The peak was discovered
for the expedition by Jan Hollan, a Czech astronomer and science popularizator
from Brno. The observing conditions were good, which means strong wind and
thin cirrus clouds fortunately out of the Sun.